Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

October 1921?

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

1998.286.304

Image Dimensions

78 x 107

Drepung monk in neck restraint as punishment for forging currency notes. A note and possibly the printing block used to make the forgery can be seen pinned to the post on the right hand side of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Copy difference

Notches on right side

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.45

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.45b

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Drepung monk punished for forgery" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.304.html>.

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